Re: [Sheflug] listing sizes of directories..

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] id-pro.co.uk>]

Will Newton wrote:
> >     Barrie>  How do I list the size of a directory (instead of getting
> >     Barrie> the fake size of 4k)?
> >
> > That's not a "fake size".  That is the amount of space occupied by the
> > directory data.  It gets bigger for sufficiently large directories
> > (try `ls -ld /dev' for example).
> 
> rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 /dev
> 
> Hmmm? :)

Running 2.4 by any chance? Looked at /proc? They're not on the filing
system, therefore have no size ;)) Look at something more relevant, like
/usr or something. I think Stephen chose a bad example ;))

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